Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973
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- Taking that person, when material things cease, what happens to him?
- Talking a lot about in trusting in God. What is the Sanskrit for trust? What word would be used in the sastras
- Tell me a little bit about Krsna consciousness, will you?
- Tell me about him (Jesus)?
- Ten times bigger than each layer (of the universe), it increases?
- Tested (many different people say that they have the perfect information about God. If they have, that's all right. But it should be tested whether they have got)?
- Thank you, very, very much. And now perhaps you can guide me and tell me what to do, which one, you know, that I ought to be concerned with?
- That (I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit) was at Calcutta University?
- That (it becomes one state, as it was formerly, five thousand years ago) requires getting some kind of political position perhaps? At least, if not us, someone else adopting the principles of Krsna consciousness, appreciating them, or...
- That (to become a cheater is one of the conditions of material life) is also one of the qualities of bondage?
- That is a yogic process?
- That means there are some living entities, say for example, human beings. They come right away to the human platform without undergoing the...?
- That's also "Not for sale in India" (the Tenth Canto of Bhagavatam, two volumes). Why?
- That's what, didn't Sankaracarya do that, divide up four parts?
- The action of force is necessary (to create)?
- The animal is completely under the modes, but the human being, the modes' influence is reduced sufficiently so that he can make this decision, from, whether to accept or reject Krsna?
- The beads, Swamiji. He wants the beads. We can get it from the office?
- The Bhagavad-gita says that Lord Brahma is a conditioned soul. Then how was it possible for him to impart the Vedas to a non-conditioned soul - Narada Muni?
- The cloudiness is created from the superior energy? So material is created from the superior?
- The evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual (world)?
- The fact that you are not drinking for a year doesn't mean to say that you have overcome the intoxicant urge if that is in you, although you know it is wrong. But couldn't it be the difference between appearance and reality?
- The five gods?... Is that by Sankaracarya, Prabhupada?... Where is it from, Prabhupada?... It is the Bhagavatam?
- The food and the sand looks exactly the same. So how they are immediately able to tell which is which?
- The human beings get dreams, and what's the lesson between the dreams and the actual life?
- The idea of the spiritual sky. I couldn't quite understand there was any form, any form at all of symbolism coming into the idea of the various stages of planets and so on, or whether, in fact, this was a very physical...?
- The literal meaning of sutra is a condensed statement, Prabhupada?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The material world itself is temporary. So the scientists still make it much more temporary?
- The meat-eating also leads to many other sinful activities too, right?
- The modern scientific research means to increase the demands of the body, the bodily demands?
- The moral standard was very good (in your university)?
- The pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- The platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up?
- The pollution, is it to some extent the result of material activity, which will cease when the spiritual...?
- The question I have, Prabhupada is that before scientific advancement, many people would listen to, like, scriptural knowledge. But now they listen more to scientists
- The question is suppose this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Krsna, and therefore he is meditating on Paramatma, and he attains Vaikuntha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...
- The real knowledge is taken away by ignorance?
- The reply to your question about Arjuna's relationship with Krsna...
- The scientists would use the same argument. The scientists would say, "Well, since I have not experienced that I am eternal, therefore how can I accept that I am eternal?"
- The sea is wonderful, isn't it? You like the sea they tell me
- The smaller birds, they are eating something from sand?
- The spirit is eternal... in the sense that in the beginning all spirits were contained within the Deity,... and at the end all spirits will refind themselves in the Deity... Would you ever admit that a spirit could fail after his last chance...?
- The spirit soul must necessarily have a body, either spiritual or material?
- The supreme living entity, he doesn't have to practice yogic power?
- The two causes, are not very clear. The material and instrumental?
- The Vaisnava is superior to a sannyasi?
- The varieties of living entities that we find in the material world, can we explain because of the desire of the living entities, to make..., to live in different houses?
- The world will not end?
- The, the nature of the inferior and the superior energies are also described in the sankhya philosophy?
- Their statement that life started from matter can be disproved very easily?
- Then that was after the university (Vrndavana, I studied the Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, as I mentioned so many, Upanisads, Vedanta-sutra)?
- There are internal senses also... There are counterparts of senses also?
- There are many people who come like that to Krsna consciousness. They seem to experience a taste, and then they go away and everything seems to be lost. What is their... position, if they are not able to stick to it?
- There are many that tell about knowledge for being good, but how do you really know? Is it just a feeling?
- There are three factors: one, duty towards God, duty towards the family, duty towards the business, duty towards the country, duty towards the society. Then how is he to balance himself in these duties?
- There is a form of soul, according to you?
- There is no more body? No more body?
- There is some difference. When we do some good, we consider it as God-inspired, but when we do something bad, then we can't say that it is also God-inspired after we have done it?
- There must have been very many gurus. Were there many gurus then?
- There was one famous politician (Canakya Pandita) from India five hundred years ago, or...?
- There would be lastly a reference section which would include all addresses that they would find useful, a glossary of the terms used, and an index, etc... You like the idea, do you?
- There's (with the affairs of Krsna and the gopis) never mention of lust or of any animal desire at all is there?
- There's been an awful lot in these last two years said about the Jesus Movement. How does that sort of line up with Krsna?
- There's this constant struggle with our lower nature? We are constantly fighting our desires even though we want to serve Krsna? This continues?
- These qualities that you were talking about, saucam, do they develop naturally?
- They (the so-called scientists) would say, "How can we believe Krsna?"
- They do not believe in God, the Russians?
- They eat (their own children, the snakes)?
- They have their own god, who is, they made a unique system, and someone else says, "No, we have our own unique system." Someone else says, "No, all those three systems we do not agree with." What's going to happen in that thing?
- They say what is the difference between an animal and a plant?
- They say, "But why should we accept any one of your authorities?"
- They say, "Oh, I've been inspired," and they create something beautiful by, automatically almost. What is that inspiration?
- They started almost at the same time (Presidency College and Scottish Churches College)?
- They will always exist? Gradations will always exist?
- They will come forward and say, "Now, what practical can we do to help implement these in the government, in the world? What can we do practical?"
- They will not listen logically (no body is finished. My childhood body is finished, but the soul is not finished) What can you do?
- They wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?
- This also shows the eternal nature of the spirit soul? Because I'm conscious?
- This body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
- This can be taken as food (China grass)?
- This divisions (of varnasrama) only in Hindus? Mohammedans also accept this divisions?
- This example is available in Bhagavatam, Prabhupada (frog in the well)?
- This gentleman who was asking you about people who are constantly being tested by all kinds of miserable circumstances. She asks: Is it not a sign of a soul that God has chosen to favor that he sends them such miserable conditions of material life?
- This has come a long way from the Barrier Reef, the Pacific. These shells. The shells... From the Pacific. From the Barrier Reef, Australia. You know the Barrier Reef?
- This is a French nun, and she wishes to know whether for us Christ is the son of God or is He God Himself or what is the identity of Lord Jesus Christ?
- This is also a translation of it (Nectar of Devotion. It is translation from Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami) or...?
- This is the big thing, isn't it? The teacher has got to be God conscious
- This is the first volume. Are you preparing more of them?
- This is the Sixth Chapter Bhagavad-gita? Is that what you're quoting (tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah)?
- This is your yoga, right?
- This man wants to know something about the Hare Krsna movement in Europe
- This movement started all over the world now. How many countries for instance?
- This rich birth is important for self-realization?
- This suffering comes from our sinful activities?
- This suffering is all due to the desire of the individual souls?
- This thing about it (a big bunch of hair) actually weighing down on the mind, is that fair to say?
- Thread (sutra means thread)?
- To get the initiation, you have to be how many years old?
- To love is very difficult, is it not? It is very difficult?
- To think in spatial terms, and it's possibly hang-ups from Christian theology, in a sense, that I wanted to persist with this questioning even further about, you know, the real nature, as far as the Bhagavad-gita gives it to us
- Today the only time they use the word God is when they are swearing and they are calling on God to damn someone else. Why is such language there? Why are they doing like that?
- Traitors. And what about the Vidura? Why he went away?
- Trivikrama Svami went to their monastery in Laguna Beach. So they were serving meat. Trivikrama said, "Why do you eat meat?" And they said, "That doesn't matter. What does it matter what you eat ?"
- Trust means to depend completely upon God?
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- Vasisthan karman vikarman? "Vi—" is generally used as to... a sort of bhaktya. To give the quality of the karma, quality of the action. Like vijnanam, jnanam vijnanam. Karman vikarman. So this a little, what is the root of the language? I don't...
- Very successful (George's record) even with one boy, you see. That's success, isn't it?
- Visitors' book, to sign (you have got some visitors' book? To...?)?
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- Was he (Lord Buddha) preaching karma-kanda?
- Was that in Calcutta (we had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman)?
- Wasn't that (Sir Jagadishacandra Bose) your father's friend?
- We are both still boys aren't we?
- We are imperfect. How do we know what a perfect source is?
- We can also appreciate Krsna's creation in that light? For example, this is very beautiful because it is Krsna's.
- We can have spiritual realization and still live in the material world?
- We cannot create anything?
- We don't deny that Krsna exists, but, well, you know... Can I see him?
- We were also discussing with Mrs. Conan Doyle and a friend of hers, how is it, if I'm thinking I am happy, or I do not have love for God, nor do I want to have love for God, how will I cultivate it?
- We'll defeat them by giving them prasadam, right, Prabhupada?
- We're talking of you. You have got the power. But people follow you because they believe in you. So you have the power to educate them. And you're not hippies, are you?
- Well, do you know very much about Jesus?
- Well, I didn't mean yours in particular. I'm talking now of all of you. I'm not talking of you particularly. I'm talking of all of you. All your children, the married devotees... (do they go to school? Your children?)?
- Well, tell me about the books you have translated. Are there some more to translate?... Well, one day you will die. Now who will translate them then? Continue the translating?
- Well, the diagnostic's not altogether clear to me how the chanting is going to affect the pollution. How do you see...?
- Well, then they'll say, "Well, if you see somebody suffering, then why do anything about it, if it just what they..." They will say, "Why? If that's what they deserve, why try to stop it?"
- Well, vegetables are living entities also?
- Well, what happens when suddenly one of you gets, very ill tomorrow morning?
- Well, you'd laugh if you were ill and there was no doctor, wouldn't you?
- Well, you're educated, you see... Yes, but how many of these are?
- Well, you've got a good tape there now, haven't you?
- What about India? I mean, do they believe, the villagers?
- What about like the case of Bhismadeva where he knew about Krsna in Goloka, and he went to Krsna as Partha-sarathi?
- What about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
- What about meditating?
- What about people who believe in Jesus, God? I mean, what about Christians? It might not have the same effect on them
- What about Sankara's cheating?
- What about the other kind (of meditation)?
- What about the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement?
- What about this position of Valmiki or Ramayana?
- What about those who are preaching, but imperfectly?
- What about your children? Where do they? Do they go to school?
- What are they (in India, we have got gypsies) called? Bauls? Bauls in Bengal?
- What do we say that something is (that something is missing within the body, therefore it is dead)?
- What do you see as being the future of the world? What will happen? Will there be an end?
- What do you think is the solution of these difficulties (physical life has become so difficult... the population has increased so much)?
- What do you think of young people who follow the Divine Light Movement?... Guru Maharaji
- What does it mean that Christ died for us, in order that we may live. Or in other words, died for our sins. He wants to know, because he's going to live anyway, he's eternal anyway, what is the meaning of that statement? What is the meaning?
- What does it mean to serve God?
- What does the government of India say about that (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden), any comment?
- What don't you like about travelling?
- What exactly is a devotee?
- What happened (I got so many good chances. But everything... Dr. Kartika Candra Bose he appreciated my activities, "Very intelligent boy." He certified to my father-in-law. This is the way of becoming rich man)?
- What happens to his consciousness which he has achieved as a man during that time which he is in the animal kingdom?
- What I didn't understand is how this (hypocrisy) is covered by your four pillars, the four... Which of these would cover lying?
- What I want to know is what you feel your relationship to God is?
- What I'm asking is how to bring the karma-yoga, the action, to transform the society, bring back into the...?
- What if there's some desire to make something beautiful to give to Krsna?
- What is Hare Krsna?
- What is His Divine Grace idea about Kali-yuga?
- What is inspiration then?
- What is meant by conditioned soul?
- What is that in connection (the analogy of the mother)?
- What is the condition of the soul, innumerable souls, within the body? Like the cells. All are living cells. These all contain individual souls... So what these individual souls are doing to support the bigger soul?
- What is the connection then between Krsna and Siva?
- What is the place of Srimad-Bhagavatam here, in this movement?
- What is the position of people like Guru Nanak, Muhammad, and other people?
- What is the purpose of Lord for creating human life or animal life or so many things? Why...?
- What is the real relationship between Krsna consciousness and other religions? Is it that God has many names and...?
- What is the standard of Calcutta University, Srila Prabhupada, at the time when Srila Prabhupada was in the University?
- What is this personality? It is not the same as our personality. In which way do you use the concept of personality?
- What language, master, was your books originally written in?
- What percentage of people today know about Krsna?
- What should be the first step to become a devotee?
- What sort of body we have been in in the past?
- What type of fruit is the best?
- What was the attitude of the Indian colony in London (after Ratha-yatra, wherever our men went, they were received very well)?
- What you are trying to say? What symbolically it means, very small (the soul). Is that what it means?
- What's the difference between a sadhu and a guru? Sadhu means authorities like Vyasa?
- What, what were you doing, what did you do before this, before 1966?
- When Krsna is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varaha, Nrsimha... and sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuntha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nrsimha or Nrsimha-loka?
- When people are starving and they have no clothing, then how can they take to Krsna consciousness? First give them food, then clothing and education, and then Krsna consciousness
- When the living entity comes to the human platform, though he is conditioned, but still, by practice of yoga he can develop some of the powers which cannot be developed by other living entities, like for example, fish?
- When the man is fishing with the hook, the fish that takes the hook...?
- When the Paramatma and the jivatma are within the same material living body, so the...?
- When they release the atomic energy, where does that energy come from?
- When they take the pill, the birth control pill, are they killing their children too?
- When this time comes when all physical things end, will any of the spirits fail to reunite with the Godhead?
- When we are emphasizing this Krsna consciousness, we are in danger of forgetting the social political dimension. So how to bring this...?
- When we feel pain or discomfort, that is covering also?
- When we sleep, when we dream, are we carried away by the three subtle elements, mind, intelligence?
- When we speak about the transmigration of the soul, we speak about 8,400,000 species. Does that include the inanimate objects as well, within those 8,400,000?
- When we tell them to stop their sinful activities, they will say "What do you mean by sinful?"
- When you say Brahma, you mean Supreme or the...?
- When you take Krsna prasadam, the living entities which are within our body, they're also taking prasadam?
- Where did we lose the contact with God?
- Where do you have these eight commentaries? Are they found in this edition or...?
- Where does Krsna fit into it? Where does Krsna fit into the yoga?
- Where does your perfect knowledge come from and how do you recognize it?
- Where have you been since then (I published something about You a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- Where is He (God)?
- Which is more important, to go back to Godhead or spread Krsna consciousness?
- Who are those three, jnanis... and karm...?
- Who has the authority to say to somebody, "Please go," though?
- Who has written this (Hari hari bifale)?
- Who is controlling the moon?
- Who is Crazy?... That's a new book?
- Who is in charge of this publication? Who is the leader?
- Who is teaching there (at Navadvipa)?
- Who is the representative in India? Of this...? In Delhi, of your organization? In Delhi?
- Who is this Dr. Bose, Srila Prabhupada?
- Who went out of India (so he went out of India and joined with Hitler, and Tojo, Japanese)?
- Who's conception (no, out of conception, he (George Washington) had no power to do it. He had no power to do it)?
- Why are they so very puffed up and proud even with these defects, Srila Prabhupada (the four defects: He must commit mistake, he must be illusioned, and he must cheat, and his senses are imperfect)?
- Why are we talking about the Rama in this mantra?
- Why do we choose the dark? Why are we all in the dark, most of us?
- Why God created sinful activities?
- Why God make some animals who eat other animals? There is a fault in the creation because... It is a fault in the creation?
- Why have you written Bhagavad-gita as it really is? Why?
- Why is it (Krsna consciousness) so popular among young people?
- Why is it in the Vaivarta Purana, after traveling 8,400,000 species of life, we get this human form of life? Is that contradiction with the desire of the spirit soul?
- Why is it then, that one person accepts it (Bhakti-marga) and another rejects it? That is from a spiritual position, his basic disposition?
- Why is that, do you think (could you tell me why you think the Western world has espoused your sort of movement now, has been keen on looking to the East for spiritual...)?
- Why is there a bodily difference?
- Why Krsna? I want to know why (concentrate your mind on) Krsna in particular
- Why not (the personality is not changed after a heart transplant)?
- Why should He (Krsna) require us to go through austerities like...?
- Why should they accept Krsna as authority over Darwin authority?
- Why should we think that birth and death is so painful, Srila Prabhupada, because wherever we are, we can think about Krsna...?
- Why shouldn't consciousness also be conserved?
- Why there are three words, karma, vikarma, akarma? There are three
- Why was Lord Rama letting Ravana live in Lanka?... Why was He permitting him to live there? He was irreligious. He did not trust in God. Why was Lord Rama letting him...?
- Why was that (teenagers, they take it very nicely)? I mean what was there, was there something special about the 1960's that made it more likely that people would go for (my movement was started from U.S.A in 1966)...?
- Why we did not have a world with universal brotherhood, universal love?
- Why we use light bulbs?
- Why were we created free?
- Why you've not answered my question (about killing)?
- Why, is it a faith or belief (first of all you have to understand that there is life after death)?
- Why...(Darwin was a number-one nonsense. Yes. Rascal. He has confused the whole world)?
- Will I ever, in another life, will I feel my "I," my ego? Will I feel that again?
- Will that extend to animals also? According to our Hindu philosophy, I understand everything has a soul
- Will this be possible, to reform these leaders, Srila Prabhupada?
- With more people in politics in India, are they able to keep the Vedic ideal? Or...?
- Without God consciousness, there's no question of morality?
- Without the proper guidance...?
- Worshiping Visnu is also material?
- Would you say that because we - and I talk about myself - because I have meat and bacon and so on, I am a, does that make me sinful? If I didn't eat those, I would be less sinful?
- Would you say there are more sins than those four? Are there other sins? Are there other sins beside these four?
- Would you think it is possible to hate the Deity?
- Would you think of a young man as wise man? Isn't it normal that a young man is working his way towards wisdom?
- Wouldn't it be more sincere if these people, these scientists said, "We don't want to be taken out of this dream, that with our senses and with all the machines built on senses we will be able to make it"? But they don't want to be taken out of that dream
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- Yeah, but people following you, could, could they stay in normal life, I mean have a business, etc...?
- Yes, but if you say fact (it is not belief, it is fact), how do you prove?
- Yes, I accept that view (if you are unable to give perfect knowledge, then what is the use of taking knowledge from you). But how do you prove that a man...?
- Yes, I would most certainly like to come back if I may. What is the best time?
- Yes. Can you scientifically prove this, sir (you'll get next body according to that mentality)? I mean is it purely a matter of belief or...
- Yet no two (flowers) are the same, are they?
- You accept to answer my questions?
- You are a cultured man. You're educated... Did you not learn...? Who gave you the talent to translate your Vedic scriptures?... Who gave you the talent, father?
- You are in India today a religious life, or...?
- You are not organizing a yatra in Paris?
- You are travelling to India, I hear?... Are you establishing a university in India?... At Navadvipa?
- You ask how you can become free of envy
- You belong to the Caitanya...?
- You can love God and be near God and train to be a medical man. Why don't you let some of your boys be trained to be medical men? Why do you say no?
- You can see the Deity as too strong, repressive, taking away your freedom, your own wishes and so you can come to hate the Deity
- You didn't start everything off (Krsna consciousness)?
- You don't have the Bengali panditas teaching Sanskrit (at Navadvipa)?
- You don't think, Prabhupada, they have reached the moon?
- You had a yatra, I guess, in San Francisco, didn't you?
- You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement
- You have asked what is meant by illicit sex. Sex should be used only in marriage for begetting nice children to raise in Krsna Consciousness
- You have got a school, a Krsna school?
- You have started that school? Yes. Could you sometime tell me about that school. They teach Sanskrit, English?
- You have the temple of Krsna?... You have a community in Paris?
- You have, that letter has a return address from Mandalibhadra?
- You haven't heard of it (the young Christian Revival?... The Jesus Movement)?
- You mean the subtle body or the soul, the same thing?
- You said that if we are performing some activity, that activity must be tested to see if Lord Krsna is pleased. But what is the test?
- You said that the four pillars that you follow are outward manifestations. They belong to a material person...?
- You say that our souls are..., we will always go on. But you are getting more and more people. No, we are getting more people, aren't we?
- You spoke about transmigration of souls, and reincarnation. If you believe in it, could you answer me by telling me how someone who has entered a new body and a new life doesn't remember anything of the past?
- You teach your children, don't you? No, I didn't mean disciples. I meant children, little ones. They understand, do they not?
- You think he (Gandhi) has gone to heaven or some, what is his position?
- You think Mirabhai was a bhakta?
- You think so. The Bois de Bologne? is much better than the Golden Gate?
- You visited Italy, Italy yourself?
- You were lecturing that, that unless one performs the proper samskaras for the children, they will become degraded. They will not follow the regulative principles and such. They become unwanted population?
- You were saying, minute before that the socialism, your socialism is that Krsna is your Marx, sort of... It will be my last question. What about you in that? Would you be, you are a spiritual chief. Would you be...?
- You were there at the time (I published something about you a few weeks ago, about the manor out at Letchmore Heath)?
- You'll be visiting only Sweden this time?
- You're not giving us any sort of answer. You're just sort of saying, "Believe in us, assume that you believe in us." So why don't you give us an answer?
- You're saying that "Something cannot come from nothing."... So therefore this explosion (big bang) came from God. But then where did God come from?
- You're saying that America is the most important?
- You've just said a few minutes ago there are eight million different kinds of life. Would you agree that the potato, the cabbage... and what have you also has a life?
- You've, said that our society ISKCON is like a sample of the spiritual world?
- You, you dreaming (and I was dreaming also, Guru Maharaja, asking me, "Come on." So I was going. So I was, "Oh, I have to go? I have to take sannyasa?")?
- Your first question, shall Srimati Radharani's feet be showing?
- Your movement, your consciousness of Krsna, engloves, takes all the direction of economics and political possibility... Can you speak, explain me about that?
- Your question in regard to marriage